Contemporary Environmental Issues

Course overview

This course is intended to help organisations to understand the issues underpinning these pieces of legislation and their demands; so that the businesses are better placed to institute the most suitable compliance measures.

Course Outline

  • Contemporary environmental issues (with regional variations)
  • Environmental challenges and corporate environmental Performance
  • Growing population and growing environmental resources?
  • Approaches to Environmental Policy formulation nd implementation
  • Introduction to legal principles and the environment
  • Urbanisation and links to Health and the Environment
  • Environmental Permitting
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Environment and changing disease patterns
  • Environmental management for Sustainable development